The Sun. — London, England, 1808-09-27 00:00:00

SPANTSIT P‘iPLIZS. a 7. • • SIRAGOSSA, At7t . thm morning. Of the .tult i the Proclatnation Of our -.beloved Monarch, Ferdinand, as King; was made with the accustomed - formalities. . On the 25 thAvascelebrated w i t h t h e g reatest!pomp (the Captain-General presiding,) military honour for the illustrious defenders of the city and country, who had fallen in the late siege, whose heroism was, the theme of a f uneral oration by Father togicro, preacher to hits Majesty. A Council of Health has been established in this city, to provide against the efreas of putrelatlion, arising from the many• French corpses which were . left in the buildings and streets of the city. Our army remains on the frontiers of Navarre, and is repined to combine its operations with those of the Asturian, Gallician, Castitian, and Andalusian armies. We have no doubt of a favourable result from these combinations, aided by the English, and supported by the enthusiasm with which the whole nation multiplies its means of defending its glory and liberty. . The following intelligence frOm Parnpeluna has ~ 'been' comr9unicated in letters worthy of credit':— «On the 17th of August, there left this place for .France ninety-seven horses, and six waggonl, loaded with wounded Frenchmen; and from that day the French settled here, have be;'n incessantly setting out on their way to France, taking with them all their effects, so that in a short time none will remain. In the ,evening of the. same day, I saw 64. waggnr.q, ' . ';ied 127 -liorses enter, • with - wounded men ; among these were the Commandant of the 70th regiment, a Captain of Cuirassiers, an Aid-de-Camp of - Gene ral Dubai, all w oun d e d. Al so there arrived 83 horses, loaded with bombs, balls, and shells, pro beetling from the mannfaelory of •OrPaiceta. Fri day [A like enumeration of small bodies, both Pf those entering the town, and those paSsing the fortress to France.] If Saturday-the 20th, th e c it y was inconfusion, for at three in the morning 260 wounded. set out for, France, and at nine o'clock 512 wEnanded entered this place, together with several Officers, and 'the Colonel of the 14th regiment, who died on the way. *e cannot give an exact account of the great num bers brought into the Royal Hospital, those belong four Monasteries, and others recently esta blished. W e have been shucked at th e s i g h t o f so thiich suffering ; for sonie of the wouilded di e d i n theeared streets, not bei ng b rought into any hou.se ; others app fo languish tor want of ' assistance, and when some broth was brought to them by the inha ibitants, 'appeared -to he restored 'from death to life. t is not rfossible to form an idea of the inhuoanity with which the French treat their own countrymen, exposing theta to the inclemency of the season, dur ltig the night, and suffering them to remain 13 or 1G Lours without • food: This mornilig, at to o'clock, he wagons of the wounded fillet! seven or eight o f the principal streets ; and I do not think they can tbe d cconamodated in the Hospitals these six or seven ours. At the same time came in, wounded, the 'reach Generals Verdier and Lefebvre. This day ako set out for France, J 7 wagons with wounded In all the streets we see esposed,to sale a vast quantity of church plate, linen, clOthes, watches, jewels, &c. effeas which had been stolen in Na varre and Arragon : they 'are offered for a very low Price ; but there are no buyers, except for the churth plate, which is purchased with a view io re s'iore it to the lawful owners at the, price which is paid for it." LERIDA, Ave. 28.--The French division which fled precipitately from Gerona, and took the road to . o .igueras, was cl ose th e ly pursu e d b y J uan Claros, with companies of miqueletes under•his corpniaH• General Count De•Caldagues sent the conqueror of . ITtuch, the intrepid Colonel Baget, instantly on the satne commission. Our General saw the eti these banditti might coMmit upon the roads,and:t here ils which fore dent against them the deliverer of the towns si . tuated on the road from Barcelona to Lerida and Tar- Nona. The valour of this Officer frequently com pelled the French to retire - to our capital, and this .0 e flatter ourselves will he the case with the others whom he is hands. pursuing, if they do• not -fall Into his _ As to the other Barcelona by the division which took the road to they arrived on thesea-side, we know officially" , that neighbouring, town 20,h instant, at Calella, and the s, where the English Frigates and bbe. Squadron de St: Felice received them with sb k a fire ' that they were obliged to retire, and raken The little arti ll ery they had been able to away, .collsisting of six cannons and in hawit zer, nd also seventy waggons tOr provision', partly Set a fireo by themselves. - The few who escaped " It er this ai..tion were pursued by Don Frat,cisco l ms, so that. doe greater part of them were un able to r eachßarceldna; and_ those who did were in 4 sad plight.—Diario de Lerida. - • • MADRID. Szrr. 7. STATEMINT BY His EXCaLLENCY DON ?EDRO CE . VALLOS, ON THE MODE -13? WHICH THE GRAND b t.J.K.E OF BERG SURREPTITIOUSLY CAUSED THE 3I NTA OF THE GOVERNMENT TO COMMAND THE I)4LIVERY UP OF DON MANUEL GODOY. • !112t" As soon as the Grand Duke of Berk, Lieute -G(heral of the armies of the Emperor, arrived In.°Pain, he contrived with the greatest address to dis 'rninate the notion that he was come tbr our good, 4 ` l ` l to eject some useful, reforms in our - Government, (? 31 : 1di "SlY inti mat i ng that he Would Protect th e cause ; the Princ e o f A sturias, and remove the Prince of h' e "ce, the objea of the universal 'detestation of the e r 'on;' at the - same time app ear i ng to disapprove great influence which the Queen possessed in Ma te affairs. He kne w was very well th a t not hi ng more - necessary in o r d er to Catch the favour of all the c'PPressecl 'Spaniards; and his objeEt being such as have since seen, it intist be confessed that the Qitleulation of the Emperor of the French, his mas ter, was not ill made. lanßut a s a ll' the thins of this w or ld- are .li:ible t o ge, the ever -memorable events of Aranjuez took „ 4 ce, - and overthrew ails plan., As soon . as the rand Duke of Befg Was infornied'Of this, he -,"ztuged his scheme, 'and -affeated to take a great in :.rest in the fate of Doh .Manuel Godoy, with whom h ad held Were a close correspondence, th ong h t h ey sr re not known to each other. It did not escape - his that the Ki ng and queen were earnestly bent silvwg.their favourite r and he therafore instantly ;~ ;~ began to, take tha steps,necessary b area hi, :liverance, which were,, however, useless AS , long as our beloved Monarch Farditiand VII., remained in prison.. This; did ,not, alarm the Fraud Duke;. of Berg ; for no sooner did. he know that his Majesty had arrived,at Burgos; ban he, renewed his deniandA to obtain, the. delivery of. Godoy into ; his. fraud ~ threatening, iivcase it was denied him, tb make Use of the force at, his disposal., • `` Nevertheless the Junta rc.Nisted : theie first at tacks, and consulted with 'tie King, On the steps to be taken under these critical circumstances. His Majesty replied, that he,had written, to the Emperor of the French, who had hiaitielf solicited of the King the releasebf the prisoner. The following is his Majesty's letter : ' The Grand Duke of Berg and Ambassador of your Imperial and Royal Majesty, has made repeated verbal requests,: that the person of D. ' Manuel Go doy, who is imprisoned in the Royal Palace of Vil laviciosa, for crimes against the State, may be placed. in your Majesty's hands. Nothing would be more agreeable to me than the power of aciceding to your desire; but the con sequences which might result from this are so seri ous, that I see myself obliged to state them to the prudent consideration of your Majesty. . ' In pursuance of my obligation to administerjus tice to my people, I have orered the highest of the tribunals of my kingdom to judge, according to the laws, Don Manuel Godoy, Prince of Pece: I have promised my peOple to publish the result of a pro; , cess on which depends the honour of a great num- . ber of my subje&s, and the preservation of the' rights of my crown. Throughout the whole extent of my dominions there is not a single town, hoW ever small, which has not transmitted accusations against the prisoner. All my subjeds manifested the most extraordinary demonstrations of joy at the moment when the intelligence of his arrest reached them ; and the eyes of all men ale fixed on the pro gress and result of this trial. , Your - Majesty, who is as wise a legislator as you are a great warrior, will recognize the weight of these consideratio ns . B ut your Majesty takes an ' interest in the life of D. Manuel Gocloy. I give you. my Royal word, that, if after the most deliberate trial, he should be sentenced to death, I shall pardon him his life, from respeet for the mediation of your Imperial Majesty: •' God preserve the life of your Impel - 1,0 Majesty many years ! ' Vittoria, Ipril 18, 1808: 4 FERNANDO.' A Royal Mandate, of the same date, informed the Junta, that it i.he Grand Duke of Berg should renew his ,sulicitations in favour of Godoy, they should reply that this affair would be settled between the two Sovereigns, and that the result would de pend exclusively on the determination orthe King.' And his Majesty having heard that the King and the Queen, his parents, doubtless from misinforma tion, had complained of the treatment which the Prince of Peace met with in prison, his Majesty commanded me, netwithstandink my assurance of the delicacy' with which the Marquis De Castilar condeated himself, that I should recommend him to take the greatest care of the health of the prisoner, which I did on the same day. " As' soon as the Emperor had received the letter of the King our Sovereign, with his accustomed false hood, he wrote to the Grand Duke . of Berg, telling him that the Prince of Asturias had placed the pri soner at his disposal, and edmmanding him to insist upon D. Manuel Godoy being delivered over to him. Murat, whose character is naturally violent and daring, required nothing more to occasion him to address the tollowing letter to the Junta : 'llk Majesty the Emperor and Ki ng h av i ng in formed his Imperial and Royal Highness, that his, RoYal . Highness the Prince of Asturias had just writ ten to him, saying that he left the fate of the Prince of the Peace to he determined by him; his Highness has, in consequence, commanded me to inform the Junta of the intentions of the Emperor, and to rei terate the demand of the person of that Prince, and send him to France. It is possible that this deter- ' Initiation of his Royal Highness the •Prince of Astu rias has not yet reached the Junta. In this case, it is'to - be supposed that his Royal Highness awaits the reply of his Majesty the Emperor; but the Junta will at Once perceive that to answer the Prince of Asturias would be to decide a different question ; and it is already known that his Imperial Majesty cannot recognize any one but Charles IV. The Junta will therefore be pleased to take this note into consideration, and have the goodness to in form me of their determination, that I may render an account of it to his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke. The Government and, the Spanish nation , will find in thiS resolution of his Imperial Majesty new proofs of the interest he takes in the affairs of Spain, since, in' removing the Prince of Peace, he 'Seeks to deprive the malevolent of the power of sug gesting that Charles IV. could ever transfer to him the power and confidence which he has lost for ever ; and, on the other side, the Junta will do justice to the noble sentiments •of his Majesty the Em peror, who does not choose to abandon his faithful ally. I have the honour to offer the Junta the assur ances of my high consideration. The General in Chief of the Etat Major. AUGUSTO BELLIARD.' Madrid, 4pril 20, 1808.' " He added, verbally, such atrocious and un heard-of threats, that the Junta, not doubting that he would 'early thern into execution, and thus com promise the repose of Madrid, had the weakness to accede to the demand, and ordered the Marquis De Castelar, in the name of . the King, to deliver up the prisoner that night, which, in fad, was done, not without much repugnance on the part of the Mar quis, and that of the other Officers who had the custody of " Truth requires that it should be stated, that D. Francisco Gill, Secretary of State for, the Marine, and therefore Member of the Junta, opposed the de livery of the prisoner, as' not being author ised by the‘Kitig. ‘, It is npt eaqv to conceive how, in the eke of fa e. - . 1 like thee, the Junta Of the GOverntifent represent to the• Council and the'public;by nieans of two Extraordinary Gazettes, that, the Prince of the Peiiee find. been delivered tip by order of the King, or how they toilld attempt' to cloak .their weakness by publihing- garblekt paiisNsei t i N . , th e pima!, c'or'respondence, inserting, for inttanee,, the fol• • With respea i o the prisoner, Don Manuel . Godok, , the King commands me .to inform the Junta ; in or .der that they may make &prover use of th.intime tiou, that his Majesty yalues too highly the dvs , re which the Emperor of the French. had manifested, not to comply with it. At the.same tint., he per forms an aat of generosity towards a criminal who has Offended ,his . . Royal person.' " h is evident,* on a little refleelion, that this could not refer to tho:lilleration of, the prispiter,:Unt that the King was dispOsed to at With generosity towards him from respea for the Emperor and what .kind . & .of generosity , was meant may be ascer tained by reference to the order given on the t ath of April to the Marquis De Castelar, concerning the health of the prisoner, which the king issued, though he well knew the mistake under which, his Royal Parents lay, which Order would have been ridiculous, if at the Same time the King ; had ordered the Junta to set him at liberty. Besides, after the Junta had transmitted to the. King an account of the reasons which .induced theM to release the. prisoner, by those above statek his Majesty ordered me tore, ply in the foll ow i ng terms The King is inform ed of the motives Which induced the Junta of the Government to deliver u p t h e prisoner without his order.' I have deemed it incumbent upon me to pub lish these fa&s, that all the nation may be informed Of what occasioned the release of Don Manuel Go doy, falsely attributed to an order of his Majesty, that no one may deem it possible that his Majesty Can fail in his solemn- word gisien _to his people, to judge them according to the laws; and that every one may find, on this occasion, reason to feel more strongly that ardent love with which we are tilled towards our beloved King Ferdinand VII. whom we implore God to restore to us, to fill the measure of our felicity. " PEDRO CEVALLOS." [Then follows a Certificate under the hands of D. liusebio De-Bardani and Azara, and D. Luis De Onis, Secretaries of the King, testifying to , the au thenticity of the instruments cited.—Signed Madrid, Sept. 3.] The same Gazette contains other articles which admit of abridgment.._ On the 17th ult.'the Magis trates of Torquernada announced to the Council at Madrid the passage of the enemy through that town in several divisions, in the course of which they com mitted 'the most wanton cruelties and depredations. They burned down '287 houses, robbing houses and churches with equal .avidity. A like report from the Alcade, Mayor of the City of Cuenca, relating the excesses committed on the retreat of Marshal ?Vioncey throdgh that city, on the 17th of June last. A reclamation on .behalf of the King's Regiment of Infantry, who had been praised in the Gazette of the 15th of July, for having performed the service of Guard to Joseph Buonaparte at Tolosa, and accom panied him to Vittoria, &c. It is said in this Paper, that the Ist King's battalion, and the 2d African battalion, h a d stoo d garrison. at St. Sebastian since last February, where they felt the - same disgust and detestation at the conduct of the French which the whole nation felt, till the detention of the King at Bayonne made them resolve to avenge the perfidy prataised upon him. A few individuals passed over. to Arragon, where the Patriot army was then , form ing'; .while the greater number, in order to find the, meana of escaping, were reduced to the nacessity of offering to compliment Joseph BLionaparte at Tolosa, where the pretender arrived,on the foth of July. He was received with acclamations from 2000 French men, but not from the inhabitants or the King's bat , talk-in, which consisted of 120 men. The King of Naples, thouh he could not fail to percei v e the dis position of the Officers, nevertheless-afreded to re ceive Ahem with great .favour. They accompanied' the King to Vittoria, where be hon o ur e d t h em .b y wearing their unifo rm : but, notwithstanding the es pecial favour,thus displayed, and the flattering offers made by some of the Members oi.the Deputation to Bayonne, early on the morning of then, 7th they set • out froM Santa Maria del Cubo ; leaving the road. to Burgos, they marched to Poza, where they rest ed. Early the next 'morning they (mind themselves near Villa Diego. They were obliged to go out of their course in order to avoid the parties of the French in that neighbourhood, till,. on The 25th of the same month, they reached the Galician army, 1 where they were joined by. the Other two battalion, of the first division, They afterwards learned that j they were pursued by 80 cavalry, who could not reach them, but whoa) they should have received with great pleasure, . • MADRID, SEPT. 7.—There were at Tudela 6000 of our troops, and 10,000 armed peasantry, when the Arragonese Corntnanders received advice from the Chief Alcade of Soria, that 20,000 French were advancing under the cotnniand of General Moncey ; to enter the kingdom of Arragon. It therefore be came necessary that our troops should retreat to Sa . ragosga, where, according to the letters from that place, every preparation was made for sustaining a second siege. The gate of Santa Engracia was the' only point which excited any degree of apprehension ; as it . was in ruins; but the utmost exertions were making to place both it and Monte Torrero in a slate oe defence. The advanced guard of the Arragonese was within three leagues of S.iragossa;. that of the French was at Gallur, seven leagues from the city. We were under sown apprehensions' for that Me• brated bulwark of heroism, when at one o'clock yesterday M. Butron, Aide-de-Camp to General Pa lafox, arrived here with intelligence that the French bad retreated to Tudela. He further states, that the people of Saragossa entertain no' alarm, should the enemy return with double their former force. In consequence of the advices froth.Arrag6n; a Council of General Officers was held here; and in order to protest that kingdom, it was determined to . send off a Courier extraordinary, with ordertr to Ge neral Blake to take an advantageous position ; but that skilful Officer anticipated' the necessity of the, intended movement, and before the express ruched'' him, he bad already posted his army ,on , the spot fixed on by the Council of War-=a Circumstance Which has forwarded the system of operations,' and given general satistatiktt. „ . CAote,"Auo. 30. , — , Yesterday arrived here a Ves sel froin Monte Video, in eighty days, to procure supply of arms to be employed against'-the Court of Brazil, the Prince of that country having summoned mbhte Video,' aild`The wlivla of tiiii"diaf4l,"fo j iUr. ; • • rerioer to the Portuguese MTils. Nato*, vt'.2t, the :bearer of the.,summons put 'Under , atrt4st, .but: his master was : given t t r blidvrstr.nd that, his surnmunt wouhf.he ;inswered by .17,000 ,wartiom Note. unntt :Editor. This is One or theadvantages . i6roferred :;upon us .by our alli ance with Fratice., .But this Affair ,wouldinstantly be at an end, ,upon receiA nig intelligence of• the events wbidh hate taken place dick. kingdoms' , CARRION. D E Lo i' CoNDEI, SEPT. 4., - -Z , 4 l lle.whOle of the Galician army,is concentrated in.this place. It marches off at tour intlie.afternotin, ,and will :con• tinue its route th e whOld night, in order to come up with the enemy. It is imagined that this,operatiod is taken .in concert with the armies of the other pro. vinces,,,and that all of them were to be in motion at ,MANRES'A, 41IJG. t I ,—By different letters from Ampurdan,., dated the 7th , and .et 14 • inst. we learn, that. on the Gth . .,theCornmand a nt o f t h at place,.ain Juan Claros, took post.iii the plai n o f Cain, is con sequence of inif,orniation that,a column of from, lop to 1000 Fr•tich „were Ittpos.that way, ,having ,ut4ler_ their escort twenty, Wat.;•gons 611 ed with , woundvd men, apd .proceeding,.norrrSori li near Gerona, to Perpignan, , He,attacked and defeated them with the utmost intrepidity, and. pursued them, without giving them a motnent!s r ,titne to. rally, as far asJun t quera.. They tied thither, with all speed, expeding to fins! an asylum, but they met only with deStruc. Lion; and not more than tact of them erected their escape to Bel"agarde. The General's Ai-d-de ; Citup enterer! a house in that place, and, frantic. with vexation •at his deleAt, he attempted, to Stab himself with a sword ; and the weapon being wrested front hiai, he threw' himself from a balcony, e`Aclairning. that he must inevitably be Shot. Some of our .hiave champions who observedhim skit . him dejd 6,10 re he carnt- to the ground. , CADIZ, AUG: 14.---By a leyerrecer:7elin Murcia, . dated at Cumyro Mayor, July the it.is s‘ated, - that Getierl,ltiNor sent a friendly me•sage to tit Russian AdMiral i n the of LiSban, inviting him to dine with him at his Palace, and spend tile even ing, in order t o confer withhint oti bbsines4 Of (no. ! went; to which ire answered, that %.‘14.:! , on service he was wont tolake his meals in his own'cabin, and to Walk his own deck only. On the folloWing day, he addressed him .;gain, requesting ulut lie ‘votilcl spare him 1000 men from his squadron, in oider to his uniting them with his troops. The .a.fis wer was, that without orders from his Soyereigfi he Cobld. :not part with one man. it/N sent a third mes sage; intimating that he would pass on board to visit the Admiral, and have the pleasure of viewing his Squadron ; to which the Admiral replied, that *lc. ever.shall set foot on board hiSShip most rethaia there. This third repulse dispidased Jutityr highly his vexation was increased to the highest pitch, when he, on the following. morning, saw the Russian Squadron formed, in battle array, with guns pointed against the city, and in an attitude of attack ing it, or defending themselves in case an attempt against them were made; front which it way be ar-, gued that Russia and France are no longer Cu terms of amity .—(Courier rf &S;alumanca.) CARTHAGENA, AUG. 20.—0 n the 18th arrivec( here the Spanish Stralron, consisting of ,the : Ships Reyna Lkisa, Si. Pallo,Guiiiero, Asia, : and St. Ramon, under the command of Admiral. boo JUAN . JOSEPH MARTINEZ, from Mahon ; the St. Fran cis-co-De Paula having arrived here a feW days be fore. • It would be difficult to give an adequate idea of the joy of the inhanitantS.M se.!ing- resti,red to their port so valuable a portion of its inadtilne force, which the perfidy the Minis'er', the most infamous that ever-disgraced a Monarch, had destined fur the In--3atiable cupidity of theFiencn De . spot The casualties which have concurred iiz the conservation of t his squadron are so ValiOUS, that we cannot but attribute its safety to the hnetposittOn ot Providence. On the loth of Febrtiary frorn this bay, tinder the command of Adthral: VgcnEz; in order to form a junction with the : French fleet at Toulon', in conformity to peretillyth'y 'orders froth the pelidiouS Gonoy ; and although' the utmost a6tivity vas exerted, Heaven would not perrnit. that the monstrous Moloch of the (Inman speCies_ should' get into his poS'sesE . l6ll this additional means of destrudion. When the expedition arrived off Cape St. Antonio, they were assailed, by such, powerful contrary winds, that they were obliged to put into port in . Majorca to refit.. A feWcitys after they again set sail for Toultin; but they were °Wig, ed . to "put back very much shattered. The repair 4, consuming much time, and being then moreover ex:" posed to the hazard of falling in with the British Fleet under Admiral MARTIN, w hick tO our good for tune was then crnizin g off. that port,- the r e p eate d orders of MURAT remained unexecnted. An Aid- de-Camp of MURAT himelf, had, in the mead time, passed to take the command, hut as our tii4- cano burst at the same titne; dispatches and instrue, lions were transmitted hither foe the new Geueral, which he was nothitiated 'Admiral. The Supreme Itenta deputed immediately the savy Lientenant DOn JOSEPH DUELO, with orders to the Spanish: Admiral not to rendet aniohedienco to. the French. Governinent. His ,arrival was' so tinier), that the Squadron was on the point, of sailing, having receiv.; ed pressing orders from MURAT to proceed to tar egtona. and other ports. • Let uS'render our thanicsgiVing to the proVidene, hind which has dieeaed these occurrences, in pre-. serving to u; such a valuable means of defence. Yesterday arrived a Ylerchint Brig from Palerm o , in eight days. Her Captain assures us that the French were, pfeCipitately quitting Naples, the' w hole Of that Kingdom having risen against' them and terrified the ; gatriSon, in conseqUeneeof haVing fully ascertained' the occurrences in 'Spain, and the Victorks 'the Spanish - Patriots - have` obtained . over their vile guests. TllE.difficulty of procuring Foreign Works renders: it a pleasing task for us to announce he .put?lickii,ion` in London of a new French . Novel,' by the Author of. " L,e . tfres ecrites,de Lausanne," which has eAcitecl considerable interest at Paris; _it is einitlud " Tine . d' therche." Maclaine MONTOLIEU . S, cesse de -100 we understand, is also shonly. to wake its appearance. . .0n Thursday evening,nne of the Soldiers belong.ing : tO the. Tower. Hamlets Militia,• on relieving a guard at the Est India Company's Dock ‘ at Black... wall, missed his4ray,'Nialked irate the bash, and wan' FYI